SEOUL: Following are details of South Korea’s consumer price index data for October, released by Statistics Korea on Wednesday (changes in percent, weighting in percent of overall index): WEIGHTING M/M Y/Y Consumer Price Index 100.00 -0.2 +1.8 By sector Agricultural, livestock, fisheries 7.79 -5.0 +3.0 products Industrial goods 32.58 +0.5 +1.5 Service sector 55.19 +0.2 +2.0 Other categories Core consumer price index 90.14 +0.2 +1.3 Fresh foods 4.07 -9.2 +1.8 NOTES: – The median forecast in a Reuters poll was for the consumer price index decline 0.1 percent in October from a month before and gain 1.9 percent from a year earlier. – October headline inflation is at 1.8 percent, the slowest gain since December 2016, data from Statistics Korea shows. – The Bank of Korea’s inflation target is currently 2.0 percent.
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